Pablo López Rivera

I am a Hedrick Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where I am mentored by Georg Menz.

In 2025, I completed my PhD in Mathematics at Université Paris Cité (formerly Université Paris VII, Diderot), under the supervision of Max Fathi. You can find the thesis manuscript here.

Previously, in 2022 I completed my master's degree at Sorbonne Université (formerly Université Paris VI, Pierre et Marie Curie) and my BSc at Universidad de Chile in 2020.

Research interests

I am mainly interested in probability theory, its connections with analysis and geometry, and its applications.

More specifically, I aim to understand how these fields interact through the study of optimal transport, functional inequalities, and stochastic processes.

I am also interested in statistical mechanics, free probability, and random matrix theory.

Where to find me?

Office 6903, Mathematical Sciences Building
UCLA, Department of Mathematics
520 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095

Otherwise, feel free to contact me (in English, French or Spanish) at my email address:

plopez [at] math.ucla.edu